The URBEM project was completed in 2006. It is planned to keep this website live until November 2015, when its status will be reviewed.

The URBEM
project was a project to provide new tools, techniques and procedures to
enhance watercourses located in urban areas. These tools were designed to provide enough scope to cover the differing, multi-functional
uses of urban watercourses and their adjacent communities across
Europe.

URBEM helped those involved
in urban river rehabilitation, the best and most innovative
practice with which to develop a comprehensive rehabilitation
scheme that will achieve the "maximum ecological potential"
requirements of the Water Framework Directive.

As river rehabilitation involves many
aspects the project was targeted at different institutions
involved in the enhancement of watercourses at all levels.